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When Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem compared antifa to the transnational criminal group MS-13, Hamas and the Islamic State group in October 2025, she equated a nonhierarchic ...

Donald Trump, who presents himself as a free speech champion, sure loves suing the media for their First Amendment-protected speech. CNN is a favorite target of his though these lawsuits don't do p ...

"Flock Safety" may be the brand name, but this company's earliest sales successes had nothing to with safety. Its target audience was homeowners associations and people running ga ...

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Donald Trump's FCC boss Brendan Carr is opening a fake new "investigation" into PBS, NPR, and BBC in the hopes of suppressing journalistic criticism of the country's increas ...

After four years of hyperventilation about TikTok's impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, and a year after the app was to be banned from app stores via an act of Congress, TikTok re ...

There are lots of ways things play out when it comes to fans of multiplayer video games building out their own host servers to play them. Sometimes fans set those servers up simply because they can ...

You've heard of New York style, Chicago deep dish, Detroit square pans. But Colorado-style pizza? Probably not. And there's a perfectly ridiculous reason why this regional style never s ...

When books were rare and extremely expensive, they were often chained to the bookcase to prevent people walking off with them, in what were known as "chained libraries". Copyright serves a similar ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. When President Donald Trump told reporters on Sept. 5 he'd started looking at sending the National Gu ...